I also do it as sort of a social event and also for competitiveness.

It's a real shame since I now have an antweight that I spent all year working on and when I finally put it down, the Spectrum reciever just fries itself. I really do want to learn how to fix my robots so that they are flawless and I CAN win championships or at least make the top 3. I'm just not very good at building robots.